Google Sites

I've generated about 17 pages out on Google Sites, most are copies from my "old" Google Page Creator site. I have taken a few pages off line, but most pages are still up on the old site, with a note pointing to the new Google Sites page 'interfacebus'.

I just added the tracking code from Google Analytics, so now the pages have a counter. By Monday I should see some data, assuming anyone has found those pages yet.

I also added the code to generate a Google Sitemap for the site. Not really sure why Google has you generate a Site-map, shouldn't they know about web pages that reside on their own site?

I still have a lot of gif files out on Page Creator that I really need to move

Web Pages Updates and Graphics

Following last weeks running of Xenu to check for 'bad' links, many of the re-directed links have been up-dated. Remember, links that are re-directed are not broken...

During this same time graphic files from my Google Page Creator site are being moved to a new storage location. To reduce server bandwidth many picture files are stored out on Google Page Creator, and not on the interfacebus server. But, Google is closing that 'beta' program so a new storage location needs to be found. Errors can occur while up-dating the html code as the pic file addresses are up-dated. Xenu will need to be run ounce again to find any of these new errors.

The Google Page Creator site also held html pages which need to be relocated. Google has a new html generation program called Google Sites. Today I added nine new pages to Google Sites, which are copies of the old Google Page Creator program. All of the new pages added today really just hold a graphic, like the previous site, but the graphic was deleted from Page Creator in favor of a link to the new page.

I'm still not happy that instead of fixing Google Page Creator, they decided to close the sites. I started my site in 2006, that's 2 years of generating a 'page rank' and other people finding my pages and linking to me. This mentality of keeping all services as beta, for years, is BS. My pages were 'in addition' to my main site, supporting the site ~ what about those people that started an on-line bussiness using Page Creator?

Here is the new address for the new site interfacebus, hit the sitemap link on the left menu bar to see all the pages. Again, these pages only hold a graphic, and their new. No pages link to them and there are no page to page links, other than the sitemap. Any page on the main site 'interfacebus.com' will still be linking to the older site.

I've also completed a few Knols in the last few weeks, but I'm not sure how to indicate how to find them. Google seems to be .... what? I don't get it. Search "knol" on Google, then search "RS232" ~ you will then find that knol, with links to the other knols; hint [RS-232].

There are many redirects

Was it just yesterday when I indicated I didn't need to run Xenu? What was I thinking with that comment? That program just found a number of link re-directs that indicate a company (website) has been taken over by another company. I don't worry and seldom correct redirects from links that move from 'what.com' to 'what.com/eng' companies do that crap all the time. But, the ones I noted seemed to move from one company to another companies web site ~ I guess times are hard all over.

The report contains a number of sections, and 're-directs' is just one of those reports. I fixed the 'bad' ones and saved the others. I did not review the "bad links" section; because, mostly that just means the site is down. I did find three sites that were redirected to the server which is not good. When a site redirects to the server that is running ads it means the site is history ~ those links were removed.

Many of these sites were already linked from my site as 'rel=no follow', which means I was telling the search engines not to follow the links, or the link is not really there (to the computer) so my site does not get pinged.

I'll never understand why some companies re-direct so often, it's like they don't get the book-mark button. One company e-mailed me a few years ago; you must change the link on this page to 'what-ever.com' [it's important]; ok; but, by the way your linked on a dozen other pages as this, and this, and this company ~ ! There is one company that always stands out over the last few years, well really two companies that always have bad links ~ I just delete them now. Why link to some one if you can't find what your looking for, or you get a 404 [page not found code].

Our incoming visits are reduced, so let's change our address so people can no longer find us. What? Yea we don't need all the sites that link to use, our page rank or any incoming links from other pages, the 'bad link we'll make us better......


Who runs these sites or their web masters? Somebody just does not get it.

Time to spider the site again

This week end I'll run the Xenu spider again to check for bad links. Some time after that I'll run the GsiteCrawler to generate an xml site map to upload to Google web-master tools [after I fix any issues found by the Xenu crawler]. I never run a crawler during normal office hours, as they put a strain on the server. Both Crawlers have to check each page on the server; or 1523 active pages and 209 inactive pages.

I've updated 1,440 pages since the Xenu program was run, but most have been html up-dates [a few gif files may be included in that count]. However; I've hand checked most pages over that time so I should not find that many issues. I was running the spider program once a month, but it seemed to miss a few issues so I've been hand checking links. The last check by the program indicated 5,978 links

Twenty new pages were added to the site since 6/7/08, so it's about time for a Google site map via GsiteCrawler. There may be a few page-to-page link updates that have been made as well, but not many ~ should make a more up to date site-map regardless.

Most of the page up-dates are due to one or more of these issues [most updated at the same time / page]:

Java script code change for Google Analytics [page visit counter]
Java script code change for Google Ads
Removal of all Java Script code for Google Referral Ads [program terminated]
Removal of two different meta tags [html coding issues, redundant un-required code]
Re-direct gif links as Google pages go out of service [Google web site terminated]
Java script code change for the Google Search Bar [ Code up-date, but not required]
Non-US ['dot'com] pages getting the html rel 'no follow' code [html non visible change]

The attached pic is of a Georgia map indicating 188 visits from that country so far this year. Russia just invaded them.....

edison software program review

I down loaded and installed edison from Verdiem tonight based on an article I saw. What a waste of time that was, and now they have my e-mail address.

The program was to make my computer go green by giving me more control over how it operated when I wasn't using it, when it should go to sleep and so on. I was going to make a smaller carbon foot-print and help the environment ~ or not.

I clicked on the schedule tab to set my time when I use the computer, it indicates the 'non-work time' is already set for you ~ how the hell does the program know that? The 'work time' is adjustable but fixed for the days you select, so you can select 9 to 5 Monday through Friday. My computer usage is 5am to 7am M-F and 6pm to 8pm M-F, but you can't select two different time frames. Plus, Saturdays and Sundays are also different, but again the time frame is fixed regardless of the day.

How is this different than just having the OS put the computer in sleep mode? edison is a joke, plus I have yet one more program running in my task bar consuming my expensive memory.

I do not recommend using edison by Verdiem because I just don't see how it benifits a user. Yes it tells you your kWh usage or saving or what ever, but so what. The program is taking up $50 of my RAM to do the same thing that Windows Vista already does. Yes it "seems" to calculate a savings if I set it to turn my PC off while I'm still using it, but that's not why I purchased a $2000 computer.

I only opened it, noticed the lack of options and closed the program two minutes later. I did not detect any options that made it appear any different than the options with the MS OS, and I plan to remove it once I submit this posting. Any e-mails to my gmail account will be flagged as spam.

Google Page Creater

It appears that Goggle is dumping their original free web pages call Google Page Creator. I don't know if it was much of a surprise. The program lacked any real tools and sort of appeared as a toy compared to what Microsoft was offering [Live Spaces]. So, the message I saw indicated that some time this year the site would close and all web pages would be moved over to their new site called Google Sites. Yea, I don't think much of their new site either.

So for the last two years I've had a few dozen web pages located out on Google Page Creator. That's two years of web history that will be lost when they decide to close down that program. Two years of gaining external web links and of course a page rank. Now any new page I start on 'Sites' begins with a page rank of zero, and no other external sites linking in.

Worse still, I was storing about 50 picture files out there that interfacebus was using with in that site. I must have that number of pages on interfacebus that linked to those pic files [to save bandwidth] that have to be updated. Which one of my pages used those pic files? Which pages linked to the html files out there?

The new site is here, but its just a blank page or so, as I'm still trying to figure out how to use 'Sites. I hate it already, but I need an external site....